Verbal Forms In Specialized Written Discourse

• Authors: Gordana Dimković-Telebaković
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The frequency and the distribution of verbal forms are analyzed in eleven professional texts for six fields of transport and traffic engineering, in a corpus of 7,215 lexemes. The analysis shows that passive forms, for example, occur far less than active forms. Certain functions and meanings of the most frequently used verbal forms are then discussed.

Keywords

EN

transport and traffic engineering settings; verb forms

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 30-37

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Gordana Dimković-Telebaković

• University of Belgrade

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0004-0